Crilly v. Ballou’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably Travis v. Dreis & Krump Manufacturing Co. (1996), 161 W. Va. 299 - Lester v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner (1978)
29 state decisions — followed in 11 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The claimant was injured, not merely while he was in a factory, but because he was in a. factory, in touch with associations and conditions inseparable from factory life. The risks of such associations and conditions were risks of the employment.” 3 Id. at 472 , 128 N.E. at 711 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“when it takes place within the period of the employment at a place where the employee reasonably may be, and while he is fulfilling his duties or engaged in doing something incidental thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“are not departures from employment, but the very substance of it. They are the inevitable concomitants of the working relationship and conditions which produce the product.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.